Sharing knowledge, skills, enthusiasm and surpluses to create local systems that function beyond sustainability. Permaculture is a design method that can be used to build regional and home scale systems to address the effects of resource depletion and environmental degradation. Relocalization, food security, community building are further goals for this group.

Check out our website and blog here: www.urbanhomesteadersleague.org The Urban Homesteaders’ League is a community venture dedicated to inspiring and empowering individuals and communities to shift from a lifestyle of passive consumption to one of active participation, creation, and connection. We are committed to re-imagining the good life as one that is meaningful, pleasurable, environmentally sustainable, and socially just. We place the home at the center of that pursuit and see it as a s …

Community. Local skills. Local Food. Adapting in place. But self-reliant, no. We are in this together. In these unsure times of climate change, peak oil, and economic instability, the one thing we do have is each other. To quote Toby Hemenway, "When we create a web of interdependencies, we grow richer, stronger, safer, and wiser." Permaculture is a means to develop life skills and enhancements for sustainable living and beyond. "To practice permaculture is to actively create a positi …

Some of the produce we eat travels an average of 1,400 miles from farm to plate. Food has to be picked and transported for days before they reach peak ripeness, compromising their taste and nutrition. Conventional methods of monocultural food production use large amounts of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that can also end up on our plates. Cities offer a number of resources for food production that have been traditionally overlooked. There are better ways to grow food right where we li …

This group is dedicated to: - learning why bees need help (they are disappearing) - how to keep bees in urban environments - beekeeping in authorized public and private spaces - bee outreach and education - potlucks and celebrations around bees - community outreach - honey!

Do you care about what you eat? This is a group of folks who want to support local, humanely raised, environmentally sustainable, fairly traded, "green" food. Thinking about joining a CSA? Maybe considering a tomato plant on your balcony this spring? How bout a new compost bin for your backyard? Maybe you work on or own a farm in Massachusetts? Or sit on the board of a an urban non-profit that brings produce to people in need......or you're a policy student, interested in finding ways of lobbyin …

Come learn some new skills, or share what you know!! The Sustainable Skills Society is a member-to-member skill-sharing collaboration. We are committed to living a simpler, more sustainable way of life which is more connected to our community and invested in the resilience of its members. Through a focus on a healthy balance of self-sufficiency and local reliance we imagine a more sustainable existence, at peace with each other, and in harmony with our environment. Our mission is to inspire e …

This group is about learning and sharing skills and techniques to thrive and survive through the challenges presented by climate change, peak oil, environmental degradation and cultural shifts. There is a place for you here to expand on positive reactions to these challenges whether through edible landscapes, gardening, farming, renewable energy, green building, local currency, rainwater harvesting, composting, mushroom cultivation, local food, forest gardening, herbalism, "green" living, food …

This group is for Practical Idealist to share ideas, skills and resources….a place to vision, debate and collaborate. Let's have conversations that have never happened before! Let's create real world solutions that celebrate our individual desires and honor the needs of our collective future. Let's enjoy the process and each other. I'm hoping to gather a diverse group of creative, positive people that truly embrace the gift of different perspectives and are excited to cross-pollinate. If you as …

This group is for Practical Idealist to share ideas, skills and resources….a place to vision, debate and collaborate. Let's have conversations that have never happened before! Let's create real world solutions that celebrate our individual desires and honor the needs of our collective future. Let's enjoy the process and each other. I'm hoping to gather a diverse group of creative, positive people that truly embrace the gift of different perspectives and are excited to cross-pollinate. If you as …

The Mission of the Capital City Organic Gardeners is to collectively share, learn and teach organic vegetable gardening methods, encouraging members of our community to grow healthy food and reduce their environmental impact. Anyone interested in organic vegetable gardening is invited to join the group.

6pm weekly "Meet The Beekeeper Mondays" [and More!] Harvard Square was commenced by Follow The Honey as a free educational community forum to illumine the many platforms, perspectives & creations inspired by our co-evolutionary kindred, the honey bee. Come beeline on the REDline to share curious forage, cross people pollinate and germinate collective nectar flow; through bees in the arts, spirit of the bees, science, literature [Virgil, Plath, etc.] ~ you name it, bees are a vector  ~ join our i …

Here in New Hampshire, where town-meeting local government, Yankee ingenuity and frugality are part of our heritage, finding local solutions to larger societal problems may be in our genes. A question worth asking in these difficult economic times is how can we tap these age-old community values to address new problems such as the ever-increasing cost of energy, the reliance on distant and anonymous suppliers to meet our local needs, and our ability to help one another through times of stress an …

The Monadnock Region Permaculture Group, sponsored by The Sustainability Project, Inc., provides a community forum and an online calendar of events for Permaculture information & discussion. Permaculture is the practice and theory that builds permanent agricultural and human systems based on patterns in nature. Through permaculture, we learn essential skills that help us design a way of life that is in harmony with the natural world, including: organic, regenerative farming & gardening, biodiver …

This group is a chance for people in the area to talk about what they are growing, share resources, and possibly share plants and seeds.

We meet to learn about and how to create beautiful Japanese flower arrangements. Learn about this beautiful and tranquil aspect of Japanese Culture. Attend Ikebana International and other related events in the Greater Boston area. Of all Japan's traditional arts, the most practiced today is Ikebana---the art of Japanese flower arrangement. In basic form, an Ikebana arrangement follows a fixed pattern: a triangle of 3 points. Emphasis is placed on linear perfection, color harmony, space and form. …

Calling all gardeners, urban homesteaders, and those interested in learning to grow! This group is for anyone interested in gardening and connecting with other fellow gardeners. Everyone is welcome to join and share applicable events related to urban gardening and in and around the city of Worcester. Looking forward to meeting you!